In effect, countries will be borrowing in a foreign currency without control of the printing presses.

ECONOMIST: Financial markets and the euro

SAFE, a unit of the central bank, said the new rules were intended to strengthen the control of foreign currency entering the country.

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Further complicating the monitoring of oil revenues from Sonangol, the company assumed some time ago complete control of foreign currency receipts from the oil sector, and stopped channelling them through the central bank as mandated by the law.

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They predict a squeeze on imports, with a cut of around a third in the foreign currency dispensed by the government's exchange-control watchdog.

ECONOMIST: Hugo Ch��vez's Venezuela

Each would control its own foreign policy, army and currency.

ECONOMIST: Montenegro

About 70% of all household and business debt is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly Swiss francs, making the country hostage to a currency over which it has limited control.

ECONOMIST: Hungarian politics